Pandemic

In November 2020, one Italian care home created an ingenious solution to Covid's isolation: a "hugging room" where people could safely embrace through a plastic screen.

In September 2020, rising Covid-19 cases plunged London into another lockdown. One photographer roamed the city's financial district amid an eerie emptiness.

French photographer Gilles Sabrié captured this dystopian scene as the world headed towards lockdown in February 2020.

In January 2020, Thailand's authorities were amongst the first to have to grapple with a worrying new disease. The frontlines included the country's shopping malls.